Talk about rush hour!

[Samuel Miller]

It was a miserable Saturday morning. It was early and Sam was just leaving the Ravenclaw Common room to go to breakfast. He always got up early, it was just the way life was on the farm back home. He was passing the owlery on his way though, to send a letter to his family. It was an unusual day. Many people seemed to be going to the owlery really early. That's strange Sam thought. Sam didn't have his own owl he just used the schools. As he was climbing the steps of the owlery he bumped into someone. "Sorry." He said apologetically. When he go to the top he waited for a school owl to come back from it's delivery. He was quite bored and frustrated because of all the people.

[Raleigh Montreal]

Raleigh came up the steps to the owlery, bumping into people every which way. All she wanted to do was to send a letter to her mother telling her to pick her up from this awful school, but the owlery was too crowded.

An older slytherin pushed into her hard and sent her hurling into a boy of about the 3rd year, knocking them both to the ground.

"Sorry." Raleigh said fustrated, she helped the boy up and started to look for the owl her sister and her shared, Gobble, still next to the boy, there wasn't much room to move.

"I'm Raleigh, Gobble." She said absently. She mentally went over the sentence in her mind.

"I'm Raleigh. Gobble is my owl."

[Samuel Miller]

Sam raised his eyebrows at the first year and gave her a wierd look. He didn't know weather the girl was talking to him or some other person in the over crowded Owlery.

"Arrr. Are you talking to me?" He asked confused. Sam had a much deeper voice than that of a third year.

[Raleigh Montreal]

"Yes," Raleigh smiled. She caught Gobble by the feet, he started to eat her hair, which was a tangled mess already. The boy had quite a deep voice, so maybe he was older and just looked a third year.

"I knocked into you, you see, so i thought I'd at least introduce myself."
She struggled to hold onto Gobble, the letter clenched in her fist.

"Sorry if i weirded you out a little bit."

[Samuel Miller]

"Right. You did freak me out a little - just a bit." Sam said. He looked down at the Raleigh's owl. He gave it a wierd look.

Wierd owl

"Nice owl - a bit wierd though. It's eating your hair. Just flick it on the beak. It will stop straight away. Just a little tip."

Finally! A school owl was free. Hewalked over to it and pulled out his letter. It was in a large envelope and on the front the address was in black in printed neatly, as Sam's writing was always neat even when he wasn't trying.
He got a piece of string also out of his pocket and tied it to the owls leg.

"Take this to my father. You know the address. He will be pleased to see you, have a safe journey." He whispered to the owl.

Sam gave it a little pat and it flew off out of the window carrying his rather large letter.

[Raleigh Montreal]

While Sam was with a school owl, Raleigh tried, unsuccessfully to tie the letter to the owl. She remembered what Sam had said and went to flick his beak.
It bit her.
"OW!" Raleigh said softly.

[Samuel Miller]

Soon after the girl behind him that he was recently talking to let out a cry of pain.

"Are you alright. You gave it a flick in the beak didn't you? Some birds are like that. Have a mind of their own." He said looking down at the Raleigh's finger.

It was slightly bleeding.

He didn't have his wand on him so he would have to fix it manually.

He grabbed a bit of parchment and string out of his pocket and handed the parchment to Raleigh.

"Put the parchment around your finger and I'll tie it up with this piece of string. I know it's pathetic but it will do, just to stop the bleeding."